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InteleTravel.com, a reputable travel industry organization that recruits and supports home-based travel agents, is sending bulk emails to email addresses that either never existed or have been closed for years. None of the email addresses in question appear to have belonged to travel agents. One was at a company not in the travel business that has long since gone out of business. So how did these email addresses get on InteleTravel.com’s list? The ESP is Vertical Response.

Sending IP: 74.116.91.138

Spam Sample:

Actual Headers:

Received: from mkt104-sf.verticalresponse.com (mkt104-sf.verticalresponse.com [74.116.91.138])
        by <xxx> (Postfix) with ESMTP id <xxx>
        for <xxx>; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:xx:xx -0600 (CST)
DKIM-Signature: <xxx>
DomainKey-Signature: <xxx>
Received: from [10.4.xx.xx] ([10.4.xx.xx:xx] helo=<xxx>)
        by <xxx> (envelope-from <bounces-<xxx>@b.cts.vresp.com>)
        (ecelerity 3.1.6.41536 r(41536)) with ESMTP
        id <xxx>; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:xx:xx -0800
From: "InteleTravel.com" <InteleTravel.com@mail.vresp.com>
Reply-To: "InteleTravel.com" <reply-<xxx>@u.cts.vresp.com>
To: <xxx>
Subject: Happy Holiday Commissions With These Top Deals!
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:xx:xx +0000
Message-ID: <xxx>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:reply-<xxx>@u.cts.vresp.com?subject=unsubscribe>
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Company_ID: <xxx>
X-vrfbldomain: fbl.p0.verticalresponse.com
X-vrpod: p0
X-CTS-Enabled: <xxx>
X-Campaign: <xxx>
X-vrrpmm: <xxx>
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
    boundary="<xxx>";
    charset="UTF-8"

Readable Email:

From: InteleTravel.com <InteleTravel.com@mail.vresp.com>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: Happy Holiday Commissions With These Top Deals!
Reply-To: InteleTravel.com <reply-<xxx>@u.cts.vresp.com>

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Click on the ad above and customize the flyer with your personal Agent contact information. Enter your name and business name if you have one, your telephone number and/or email in the boxed area at the bottom of the document. Don’t forget to include your personalized InteleTravel website address so your clients can book directly on your site. (Don’t have a website yet? Send your customers to the Book Travel screen at www.InteleTravel.com, but be sure to give them your Agent PIN so you get the commission. Better yet – set up your personalized website in just a few minutes at Create My Website in the Agent Only area). If you don’t have an Adobe Acrobat program, you can simply leave the default message already in place.

If you no longer wish to receive these emails, please reply to this message with “Unsubscribe” in the subject line. Please remember that this email is part of your services at InteleTravel.

http://cts.vresp.com/u?<xxx>

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This message was sent by InteleTravel.com using VerticalResponse

InteleTravel.com
777 East Atlantic Ave
Suite 300
Delray Beach, Florida 33483
USA

Read the VerticalResponse marketing policy:
http://www.verticalresponse.com/content/pm_policy.html